Following the big announcement about the iPhone 5 coming to T-Mobile (see Apple section above), the mobile carrier has announced that they will stop subsidizing phones and instead lower the price of the plan. Yes, the is T-Mobile, not Metro PCS or Cricket.

Final Fantasy IV will be available December 20 on iOS and next year for Android.

SwiftKey has released a beta of its Swype-like keyboard (which includes the ability to swipe entire sentences without lifting a finger). Your round-up author is a big fan of the company's predictive keyboard, and he is very intrigued by this new offering.

-Wait so retina display is so different that they had to make new versions to support it? Interesting

It's a much higher resolution. The applications can scale, but they won't really take advantage of it.

The resolution issue is one of the reasons analysts are recommending iPad Minis over lower-priced, higher-res Android tablets. Since the iPad mini uses the same resolution as the iPad 2, a ton of apps have been built to support it. Since Android apps are a mixed resolution bag, you get a lot of apps that aren't designed for larger screens/resolutions. They'll stretch to fit, but they won't look nearly as good as if they were natively designed for them.

It's a much higher resolution. The applications can scale, but they won't really take advantage of it.

The resolution issue is one of the reasons analysts are recommending iPad Minis over lower-priced, higher-res Android tablets. Since the iPad mini uses the same resolution as the iPad 2, a ton of apps have been built to support it. Since Android apps are a mixed resolution bag, you get a lot of apps that aren't designed for larger screens/resolutions. They'll stretch to fit, but they won't look nearly as good as if they were natively designed for them.

Yeah the new iPads with retina displays are really nice. You can take a magnifying glass to them and you still can't see the pixels around text.

My fiance really wants a mini so she can put it in her purse and read during breaks when she does 12 hour nursing shifts. The big ones definitely won't fit the bill for that. Not sure if that's in the Christmas budget though.

Yeah the new iPads with retina displays are really nice. You can take a magnifying glass to them and you still can't see the pixels around text.

My fiance really wants a mini so she can put it in her purse and read during breaks when she does 12 hour nursing shifts. The big ones definitely won't fit the bill for that. Not sure if that's in the Christmas budget though.

Hm I'd be interested in chatting about iPads with you if you want. Feel free to email me.

Yeah, I was thinking the mini would be nice for women in their purses, for sure.